Pre-Freeze & Post-Thaw Account Requirements

[williampu]

Hi All,

I'm attempting to backup IBM Lotus Domino servers using pre-freeze and post-thaw scripts.
During the testing, I have noticed that the account used to connect to the Guest OS requires interactive logon access to copy the scripts onto the domino server for execution.
The scripts are configured in the Application-Aware processing tab for the job.
Is this really a requirement to have an account which has both admin level access and interactive logon access to the Guest OS just to run pre/post backup scripts?
I had a support call in (Case ID: 03301641) which support did confirm this. However, I want to check with other power users here to see if its a reality.

William

[wishr]

Hi William,

It is logical that to be able to change the state of a database in order to make a backup consistent it's always required to use a privileged account, isn't it? Otherwise, how you'll access the database to execute a script?

BR,
Fedor

[Andreas Neufert]

You can use VMware Tools quiescense with default places of VMware Tools pre and post scripts. Then you do not need any account on the Veeam side.
(Disable Veeam Inguest processing, Enable VMware Tools Quiescense checkbox at the Backup Job with Storage - Advanced - VMware, place the script at the default VMware places.)
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... tml?ver=95
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1006671

[williampu]

Thanks for the info Andreas, I will test it out and get back to you with how things go.

William